[NYTr] US Is Losing the War in Iraq: Intel Analysts

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Kurt Nimmo's blog - Dec 19, 2004
http://www.kurtnimmo.com/blog/

Intelligence Estimate States the Obvious: Bush is Losing Iraq

by Kurt Nimmo

December 19, 2004 - Supposedly, this is news: the United States and its
Iraqi allies arent winning the battle against Iraqi insurgents who are
trying to derail the countrys Jan. 30 elections, according to administration
officials, reports the Seattle Times. Nor have the United States and interim
Iraqi government been able to find any divisions they can exploit to divide
and conquer the Sunni Muslim insurgency, according to classified
intelligence estimate. See http://www.uruknet.info/?p=8216

Of course not. Because wars of national liberation cannot be defeated unless
excessive violence and brutality are employed. For instance, in order to
defeat Boer guerrillas in South Africa (1900-1902), the British used a
scorched earth policy, the same as General William Tecumseh Sherman used
against the Confederacy during the American Civil War; i.e., total war
burning crops, killing livestock, consuming supplies, and destroying
civilian infrastructure. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_war

In Transvaal, the British stripped the countryside of anything which could
be useful to the Boer guerillas, killing livestock, burning crops, razing
farms, and forcibly moving Boer families into concentration camps where they
were starved and deliberately infected with disease. The English hoarded the
Boer women and children into open cattle trucks or drove them on foot to
concentration camps, writes Hennie Barnard. The amenities in the camps were
clearly planned to kill as many of the women and children as possible. The
outbreak of disease and epidemics in the camps were further promoted by,
inter alia, the lack of sanitary conveniences. See:
http://www.boer.co.za/boerwar/hellkamp.htm

In Iraq, the United States has destroyed the civilian infrastructure,
indiscriminately bombed and killed possibly 100,000 civilians, poisoned the
Iraqi people with depleted uranium, and plans to turn Fallujah into a
high-tech strategic hamlet, and yet the insurgency gives no indication of
surrendering, regardless of what Bush and Crew do to civilians. See
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=7888

Bush has yet to round up Iraqi women and children, herd them into
concentration camps and inflict privation and disease upon them, but if the
Strausscons have their way this may come to pass, for as the Strausscon Bill
Kristol writes, unless we win that battle, we will see America itself, and
the world, shift disastrously into neutral in the broader war. See
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46730-2004May 21.html

As the destruction of Fallujah demonstratesthe bombing of hospitals, killing
of medical staff, sniping of women and children, the indiscriminate use of
napalm and possibly chemical weapons, Bush and Crew are determined, even
desperate, to defeat the insurgency, and as time passes and the resistance
spreads and becomes more effective the Bushcons will become more brutal. See
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=7578

It would seem logical for the Bushites to negotiate a settlement with the
Iraqi resistance, but of course, considering the grand strategy of the
Straussconsa reshaping of the Arab and Muslim Middle East at the behest of
extreme right-wing fanatics in Israelnegotiation is not only impossible, it
is unthinkable.  See http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1257 In
1954, the French minister of interior, Francois Mitterrand, said the only
possible negotiation is war in Algeria,

and due to this inflexibility the maquisards (guerrillas) of Algeria
eventually drove the French out of their country, but not after 1.5
Algerians and 18,000 French had died. Unfortunately, the same is likely to
happen in Iraq. See
http://www.searchspaniel.com/index.php/Algerian_War_of_Independence#War_dead

It is not so much that the Strausscons are ignorant of history in
particular, that the tenacity of the Vietnamese eventually defeated the
worlds most powerful militaryrather they arrogantly believe it is different
this time because they are calling the shots. If, more accurately, when the
United States is driven from Iraq, the Strausscons will blame the American
people for not having the stomach to stay the course and not mustering the
requisite degree of brutality (and reluctant to donate their children to the
Likudite cause). Hopefully, they will be making these protestations from the
docket at the Hague.